Month: March 2015

I immediately thought about German football culture as I read my way through David Goldblatt and the Football Action Network’s (FAN) bombshell, “This is Our Game,” manifesto published in Sunday’s Guardian. While Goldblatt diagnoses the domestic game’s […]

This time last year, 18 months after retiring from professional football, Pal Dardai was just finishing his first season in charge of Hertha Berlin’s U15 side, guiding the young Blue-and-Whites to 17 wins from their […]

Wolfsburg’s 4-1 demolition of Bayern Munich at the end of January sent shock waves through the football world, announcing Wolfsburg to the neutrals who hadn’t yet noticed their success this year. Despite a Bas Dost […]

Last Friday, we officially reached spring, a time of improving weather, longer hours of daylight, and in the past few years, a time of increased transfer activity from Borussia Mönchengladbach. Since finishing fourth a few […]

Having booked my trip to Munich to see FC Bayern take on Borussia Mönchengladbach at the Allianz Arena, I started to consider my schedule for the weekend. With Bayern playing on the Sunday evening and […]

No other clubs has “yo-yoed” between the top flight and Bundesliga 2 than 1.FC Nürnberg. Currently, Der Club are Bundesliga 2 dwellers, looking for yet another Bundesliga return. However, 2014-15 has been quite unkind to […]

For this Wednesday’s test against Australia in Kaiserslautern and Sunday’s EM-qualification match in Georgia, Joachim Löw has called into duty 16 World Champions for his 23-member squad. The names filling the other seven roster spots […]

Another vintage performance by Borussia Mönchengladbach, spurred on by a compact defence and two goals from their Brazilian forward Raffael, secured an absolutely invaluable trio of points on a memorable evening at the Allianz Arena. […]

Allianz Arena, Munich Bayern Munich lost at home for the first time this season. Raffael finished off two excellent counter attacks, and Yann Sommer made some important saves for Borussia Mönchengladbach, as the Foals shocked […]

Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart, Germany Two goals in three minutes from Daniel Ginczek powered VfB Stuttgart to a massive home win over Eintracht Frankfurt. After not conceding despite being outplayed in the first half, they came […]